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New Remix! Roommate from Hell!

October 5th, 2009 | By 49

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Roommate from Hell! You know, the MC Lars song with mc chris? It’s now in my mp3/discography section! It’s a jungle remix that uses the devil’s tritone. All notes are 3 half-steps apart (or 1.5 steps) for an evil sound.

It also has me playing with my new studio toy, the Novation Nocturn. I assigned it to one of the effects that is chewing up the Amen break.

There are a few remixes of this song on MC Lars‘ website but none of that mashed up Amen breakbeat sound that mine does! Thanks to @redvoid for giving some constructive crits on the track.

Please download, share and enjoy!

Notes:

I bulldozed the original hook and intro. I pitched down the lars hook and made a ‘response’ from chris by taking what I really liked from the last part of mc chris’ outro thingy. I used Acid to arrange the track and chop up the Amens. When I was happy with the macro elements, I pulled them into ProTools. I consciously tried not to use Reason as an excuse to use PTLE8’s Vacuum for the bassline (Vacuum rocks!) and Xpand2 for the pad.

The song is really pretty simple: A pad, a bassline, vocals and beats but I like it. For bonus points, can you id the evil laugh sample in the breakdown before the chris verse?

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Rapbassador Final Stretch!

February 10th, 2009 | By 49


We’re in the final stretch for the completion of Rapbassador! I’m waiting on some collabo bass+guitar parts and some time to do cover art. Miquiel will be doing post-production mastering. Yesterday I went by MOSI Tampa to take some pictures of their Recyclosaurus for cover art. I also scanned a special piece of awesome to be included with the release. The tracklisting is as follows:

RAPBASSADOR by funky49
01 mad science (cover of a fanatical/jaylyn coffin song)
02 thats not imax
03 the future is calling
04 your body (is a world)
05 mosi got the party
06 still nerdy
07 still nerdy (chopped and screwed remix)

After Rapbassador is done, I’ve got some music with Kabuto and MC Lars.

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Tampa MOSI EP in production!

January 29th, 2009 | By 49

Guess what? (what?)

I’m working on a new album. It’s to support and promote my local MOSI… Museum of Science and Industry. Tampa’s MOSI has a brand new exhibit called Body Worlds. That’s one of the songs. Here are some lyrics to “Your Body is a World”

shatter apathy of anatomy, physiology
Doc Gunther thanks for your discovery
MOSI, Science and Industry
hooks it up (yeah) for all to see
what’s under the skin of humanity
ignore what’s in store? insanity.
see where I’m coming from with this
go and witness the epididymis

Another song is about MOSI itself. It’s called “MOSI got the Party” Sample lyrics:

Mariposa, butterfly in Spanish, got
MOSI in your town and that’s an advantage,
manage to adopt, so that these fliers, can’t be stopped,
Bio Works Butterfly Garden rocks

Another song pimps the IMAX theater at MOSI. This one is called “That’s Not IMAX!”
Check it!

so whatcha, whatcha wanna watch?
whateverrr, you’ll like it a lot!
animated features, ones about creatures
documentaries for all to see, what
did my Aunt Rose Marie like best?
BRRR – the sound track to Everest!
so, doesn’t matter what you got at home
it’s nothing like the MOSI Dome!

The fourth song for the EP is a bit more personal. The song is called “Still Nerdy”. Here are 32 bars of it.

got
Lil ‘Debbie hunches, Star Crunches, in my
lunches, never throwin punches in school,
never was a fool, made to feel foolish
toolish, like a big dork, cause endomorph
my body type, now I rhyme right
fat then, fat pockets now outrageous
cause voracious I’m a reader
it took some patience, girls got flirtatious,
metamorphosis from that to this
gettin’ dissed to being on the guest list
transformed outside and paradigm to be a
winner, took girls to dinner and got in her
never stopped rockin with the PCs, mp3s
and a MC they helped make me, PS
three the new Atari twenty-six fix,
never gonna stop nerd being in the mix

no chicks, no girls, no opposite sex
twenty-four baud I would connect
enter cyberspace, hello to BBS
use that smart mind that I was blessed
Coke made my glasses, my frames the worst
everyday had a pimple to burst, cursed
by feelin’ like a schlemiel, had to deal with
depression, aggression, ka turned the wheel
now i don’t feel that trouble, rubble at my feet
butterfly busted out of the geek, I speak
with faith in self, confidence wealth
retired the old me on the shelf
new school me got savour faire
now whatcha wanna compare?
sizes of the pee-pee or SATs?
scrotums or intelligence quotients?

Honestly, this is some of my proudest work as of late. 2009 is going to be a good year for rhyme! I’m also working on the music for these songs too…. using my newly upgraded Pro Tools LE 8 baby!

If I can get one extra person to Tampa’s MOSI… then its worth it! What inspired all this? Julia @ Brandtampa.com and her “Virtual Ambassador” program. I’m not much of a blogger, but I can hook up a rhyme and deliver it over my beats! I appointed myself the unofficial rapbassador (rap+ambassador) to Tampa’s MOSI. I’ve been the Chicago’s MOSI, the Franklin Institute in Philly as well as science museums in NYC and Munich. I want Tampa’s to shine the brightest!

FUNK

p.s.

sorry if i’m not the best, most prolific blogger. i feel that who the hell wants to hear from me? As Q-Tip says, check the rhyme yo.

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1000+ copies of Starblazer!!!!!!!

July 3rd, 2008 | By 49

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Master & Artwork is at Discmakers!

June 23rd, 2008 | By 49


Exciting! The art was finished Friday night and uploaded to Discmakers. Libby had dropped off the art files she did Wednesday night and Christy and I completed the liner notes page, back cover and inside right page. In Adobe Photoshop, we took Libby’s cover art and the 3 other panels, exported them as TIFs and dropped them into Adobe Illustrator. From there we worked them into the Discmakers template. We also cooked up a quick art for the CD itself.

The cd master was sent via FedEx after all that on Friday night and arrived this morning. I had forgotten to upload some TIFs (oops!) so they called & emailed me for me to do this. I should have the physical copies on Thursday, July 3 so they can be sold at Nerdapalooza 2008 on July 4+5 !!

While filling out the legal paperwork for Discmakers, I said my record label was “Lucky Black Cat Music”. Anther question was the name of the recording studio. I said “Bela’s Castle”. Kinda gay right? To the right you’ll see the black cat that Lazer Libby arted up for the cover. In later posts I’ll show you conceptual sketches she did of the cover characters.

I also noticed I had a typo on one of the track names (electrovoodoo instead of electricvoodoo) and an extra e in ‘rap-sody in blue period eera’. The first one isn’t so bad but the second one is a big WOOPS.

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Starblazer track listing!

June 19th, 2008 | By 49

01. Starblazer
02. Digital Life
03. Milk & Doo Doo
04. Capture the Day $ #
05. Synthetic *
06. Electro Voodoo Superstition (funky49 mix) *
07. Design Within Rhyme *
08. We Making Tracks *
09. Tesseract Travelers * %
10. Samurai L. Jackson *
11. RPG *
12. Wack Attack $ & %
13. So Hip Hop
14. Mostly Harmless &
15. Doesn’t Matter
16. Rap-sody in Blue Period Era *

* with redvoid!
$ with mCRT!
& with Ham-STAR!
% with dimension/mc jeff z!
# with Betty Rebel, mc wreckshin & Sir-up!

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Starblazer cover art!

June 18th, 2008 | By 49

SNEAK PEAK of the cover art for funky49’s starblazer cd! the art was created by Libby aka Lazer aka Olivia of Ninja Suicide

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